s depends on, 19, _note_.

Polk, President, synonymous with our country, 30
--censured, 44
--in danger of being crushed, 46.

Polka, Mexican, 24.

Pomp, a runaway slave, his nest, 117
--hypocritically groans like white man, 118
--blind to Christian privileges, 119
--his society valued at fifty dollars, _ib._
--his treachery, 120
--takes Mr. Sawin prisoner, 121
--cruelly makes him work, _ib._
--puts himself illegally under his tuition, 122
--dismisses him with contumelious epithets, _ib._

Pontifical bull, a tamed one, 22.

Pope, his verse excellent, 11.

Pork, refractory in boiling, 22.

Portugal, Alphonso the Sixth of, a monster, 123.

Post, Boston, 33
--shaken visibly, 34
--bad guide-post, _ib._
--too swift, _ib._
--edited by a colonel, _ib._
--who is presumed officially in Mexico, _ib._
--referred to, 59.

Pot-hooks, death in, 59.

Preacher, an ornamental symbol, 65
--a breeder of dogmas, _ib._
--earnestness of, important, 123.

Present, considered as an annalist, 65
--not long wonderful, 73.

President, slaveholding natural to, 66
--must be a Southern resident, 98
--must own a nigger, _ib._

Principle, exposure spoils it, 43.

Principles, bad, when less harmful, 27.

Prophecy, a notable one, 51, _note_.

Proviso, bitterly spoken of, 79.

Prudence, sister, her idiosyncratic teapot, 92.

Psammeticus, an experiment of, 11.

Public opinion a blind and drunken guide, 25
--nudges Mr. Wilbur's elbow, 26
--ticklers of, 45.

Pythagoras a bean-hater, why, 84.

Pythagoreans, fish reverenced by, why, 54.

Quixote, Don, 57.

Rag, one of sacred college, 25.

Rantoul, Mr., talks loudly, 16
--pious reason for not enlisting, _ib._

Recruiting sergeant, Devil supposed the first, 10.

Representatives' Chamber, 54.

Rhinothism, society for promoting, 74.

Rhyme, whether natural _not_ considered, 11.

Rib, an infrangible one, 90.

Richard the First of England, his Christian fervour, 23.

Riches conjectured to have legs as well as wings, 62.

Robinson, Mr. John P., his opinions fully stated, 27-31.

Rocks, pocket full of, 91.

Rough and Ready, 111
--a wig, 112
--a kind of scratch, _ib._

Russian eagle turns Prussian blue, 50.

Sabbath, breach of, 27.

Sabellianism, one accused of, 82.

Saltillo, unfavourable view of, 17.

Salt-river in, Mexican, what,